setup.exe 2.218.2.8/9 broken

[Harig, Mark A.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 11:52 PM
> To: John Haggerty
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: setup.exe 2.218.2.8/9 broken
> 
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> 
> (3) bug #2: minor issues with parsing "buried" setup.ini 
> files -- that 
> belong to things NOT cygwin-setup.exe-related.  This happens 
> only when 
> someone says "My local setup directory is HERE" when HERE has 
> subdirectories that don't belong to cygwin-setup.  (That's 
> bad, don't do 
> that: setup's 'local directory' is his own personal playground and he 
> doesn't play well with others)

I hope that this isn't going to be the solution to the problem of
setup.exe finding non-setup.exe setup.ini files.  Although I don't think
that I will make this mistake again, I expect that it will happen to
future users who are not reading this list today.

Also, I'd like to suggest that when setup.exe finds syntax errors in a
setup.ini file, it log those messages in a file so that the messages can
be used in reporting problems with setup.exe.  I've been unable to
cut&paste the text from the windows that list the parsing errors.

-mark

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